As a new teacher, you will be required to participate in the RI Teacher Evaluation. The evaluation contains numerous components that culminate in your Final Effectiveness Rating (see diagram below). In this assignment, you will complete one component of this evaluation system.
Key Elements of RI Teacher Evaluation
The Rhode Island Teacher Evaluation contains three criteria that all teachers will be evaluated on. (*As stated in the teacher evaluation and support system manual*)
Professional Foundations – Measures instructional planning and the contributions teachers make as members of their learning community using the Teacher Professional Foundations Rubric.
Student Learning – Measures a teacher’s impact on student learning through demonstrated progress toward academic goals. As science teachers, your Student Learning Objectives will be used to evaluate these academic goals. (The Rhode Island Growth Model is only used in tested grades and subjects).
Scores from each of the three criteria will be combined to produce a final effectiveness rating of: Highly Effective, Effective, Developing, or Ineffective.
Description of Assignment
The purpose of this assignment is to begin to prepare you for the RI evaluation system that you will be participating in as a new teacher. Creating measurable learning objectives for your students is the first step in the evaluation process. In this assignment, you will create specific learning objectives for your students and design the assessments to measure your students' progress toward these goals.
The Process for Setting Student Learning Objectives: (*From Measures of Student Learning*)
Setting Student Learning Objectives prompts teachers to answer three key questions:
What are the most important skills and knowledge my students must learn?
How will I determine if students have learned them?
Based on what I know about my students, what is a rigorous and attainable target for how much my students should learn?
These questions align with the three major criteria of a Student Learning Objective: priority of the content, quality of the evidence, and rigor of the target.
You may find it helpful to consult with your CT to get some good ideas and to help you set reasonably obtainable goals
Using the SLO template, begin writing your Student Learning Objectives.
Below, you will find many links to guide you in writing your SLOs
You are only required to write ONE SLO for this assignment
Determining Assessments for SLOs
The score for your SLOs will be based upon evidence of student learning provided by your assessments. Various forms of evidence are acceptable as measures of student learning, but all must be approved by an evaluator. When creating your assessments, think about the quality of evidence they provide. Keep these things in mind:
Will the evidence source provide the information needed to determine if the objective has been met?
Teacher created assessments will be evaluated using the following criteria:
The assessment measures all of the standards included in the Student Learning Objective
The assessment includes an adequate number of items or points to measure the content
The assessment includes items or tasks that represent a variety of Depth of Knowledge levels
The assessment is accompanied by a rubric or scoring guide
Below is a table of the types of documents needed to score SLOs using various assessments:
**It is important to note that a highly standardized test does not mean it its of greater quality than a teacher created assessment. It only means that less documentation is needed in order to score your SLOs.
Reflection
Based on the results your SLO assessments, write a reflection of how to improve your SLOs and/or assessments in the future.
Did your SLOs reflect the most important skills/content that your students should learn?
Did you accomplish your SLOs?
Were your SLOs and assessments rigorous enough? Too rigorous?
How well did your assessments align with your SLOs?
Would you use different kinds of assessments in the future?
Create a new link to your SLO (insert where this will go here). Use the SLO Master template to create your SLOs, address your methods of assessment, and reflect upon this experience.
SLO Evaluation Assignment
Reference: PD Plan ActivityIntroduction
As a new teacher, you will be required to participate in the RI Teacher Evaluation. The evaluation contains numerous components that culminate in your Final Effectiveness Rating (see diagram below). In this assignment, you will complete one component of this evaluation system.Key Elements of RI Teacher Evaluation
The Rhode Island Teacher Evaluation contains three criteria that all teachers will be evaluated on. (*As stated in the teacher evaluation and support system manual*)
Scores from each of the three criteria will be combined to produce a final effectiveness rating of: Highly Effective, Effective, Developing, or Ineffective.
Description of Assignment
The purpose of this assignment is to begin to prepare you for the RI evaluation system that you will be participating in as a new teacher. Creating measurable learning objectives for your students is the first step in the evaluation process. In this assignment, you will create specific learning objectives for your students and design the assessments to measure your students' progress toward these goals.
The Process for Setting Student Learning Objectives:
(*From Measures of Student Learning*)
Setting Student Learning Objectives prompts teachers to answer three key questions:
These questions align with the three major criteria of a Student Learning Objective: priority of the content, quality of the evidence, and rigor of the target.
Determining Assessments for SLOs
The score for your SLOs will be based upon evidence of student learning provided by your assessments. Various forms of evidence are acceptable as measures of student learning, but all must be approved by an evaluator. When creating your assessments, think about the quality of evidence they provide. Keep these things in mind:
Teacher created assessments will be evaluated using the following criteria:
Below is a table of the types of documents needed to score SLOs using various assessments:
Reflection
Based on the results your SLO assessments, write a reflection of how to improve your SLOs and/or assessments in the future.
Create a new link to your SLO (insert where this will go here). Use the SLO Master template to create your SLOs, address your methods of assessment, and reflect upon this experience.
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